"Vera" Lilias Vera KEEN / WALDECK
Born 8 May 1903 in Perth, Western Australia [P128]
Daughter of Thomas Edmund KEEN and Alice Grace REYNOLDS [15]
Grew up and worked on her parents farm in Shackleton [P128]
Later left the farm in Shackleton and shifted to the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley where she worked for a dressmaker [P128]
Shifted to Carnamah to work for her uncle "Fred" Norman W. REYNOLDS [P128]
Shop Assistant in Norman W. REYNOLDS' General Store in Carnamah in 1928 and 1929[4] [P128]
Resided with her uncle, aunt and cousins in a house adjoining the store at 7 Yarra Street, Carnamah [P128]
Member of the Carnamah Girls Club [4: 20-Jul-1929]
Attended the wedding dance of Charles ROBERTSON and Winifred LANG at the Carnamah Hall on 27 March 1928 [4: 31-Mar-1928]
She was among the 400 people who attended the Matrons and Benedicts Ball held in Three Springs on 31 August 1928 [4: 8-Sep-1928]
Made a donation to the Carnamah Football Club to aid them in raising funds to send a team to Geraldton in 1928 [4: 22-Sep-1928]
Spent a fortnights' holiday in Perth in February 1929, during which was relieved in Carnamah by Miss Libra OSBORNE [4: 16-Feb-1929]
She was tendered a Farewell Social in Carnamah on 16 July 1929 by the members of the Carnamah Girls Club [4: 20-Jul-1929]
At her farewell she was presented with some handkerchiefs and a pink marble clock [4: 20-Jul-1929]
Left Carnamah on 18 July 1929 and shifted to Mullewa [4: 20-Jul-1929]
Shop Assistant in Thomas MOLSTER's General Store in Mullewa [6] [P128]
Wrote to her friend "Bob" Lionel R. WYLIE of Carnamah following the death of his younger brother Normie in August 1929 [P128]
Married Gordon Lowe WALDECK at the Methodist Church in Northam on 1 January 1932[P128]
They married at Northam on their way to Shackleton to introduce Gordon to her parents and family [P128]
She had met Gordon for the first time at her uncle's store in Carnamah (he was working as a farmhand in Carnamah in 1928) [19] [P128]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Pindar near Mullewa [P128]
During the depression her husband left to work on a mine, while she remained on the farm and worked as a dressmaker [P128]
Resided on the farm in Pindar until 1935 [6] [19] and by 1936 was living with her husband in Sandstone [P128]
Made all of her children's clothes, her own clothes, and also clothes for some of her extended family [P128]
They later resided in Cue and Gwalia, and then from 1938 to 1949 resided in Norseman [P128]
Herself and her children remained in Norseman while her husband served in the Royal Australian Air Force 1942-1945 [P128]
After leaving Norseman they shifted to Perth [P128]
In Perth resided in a State Housing Commission home in Hilton Park and later in a War Service home in Mount Hawthorn [P128]
Resided in Ravensthorpe for a number years and then at Amelia Heights in the Perth suburb of Balcatta [P128]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Rockingham [2]
Mother of Barry, Edmund and Helen [P128]
Died 29 July 2000; buried at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in the Perth suburb of Padbury (Eremea Court, 616) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Lilias Vera Keen / Waldeck' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/lilias-vera-keen [reference list] |
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